From the monthly archives: October 2006

Forward marines!!

By On 20/10/2006 ·

Last night I had the dubious honour of playing Dawn of War on national television – in a segment on video game ratings. Note to self: The whole “talk while playing” idea probably sounds better than it actually is (come to think of it, it sounds pretty dumb in the first [...]

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In Danish: ITU-studerende søges til 15-20 timers arbejde

By On 19/10/2006 ·

Jeg søger en ITU-studerende til “kodning” af transkriberet samtale. Arbejdet går ud på at kategorisere hver udtalelse i en transkriberet tekst vha. PC-programmet nVivo.

Arbejdet kan udføres fra en hvilken som helst PC. Arbejdet kræver ingen særlige forudsætninger, men kendskab til computerspil (som samtalen omhandler) og erfaring med behandling af kvalitative data er en [...]

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Low bandwidth still rules: SMS messages sent in Denmark

By On 17/10/2006 ·

I once used this graph for teaching. It’s now updated and blogged.
2006 numbers are based on the first 6 months.
Population: 5,4 million

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Player rating systems

By On 16/10/2006 ·

Peer-2-peer rating systems work quite well in systems like eBay and Slashdot.

But they do so because User A has no real interest in User B’s future. In brief: A has no real reason to be dishonest.

Not so for online gamers. Here a rating can be [...]

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But the Evil that I would not…

By On 16/10/2006 ·

In many systems it seems, paradoxically, to be the case that only rulers/managers generally opposed to a certain development can actually execute it.

In my old pre-school district of Gentofte, traditionally highly conservative, they are now using freakish therapy techniques on young school children. In Danish politics, large welfare cuts have almost always been executed [...]

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